Optimal location of controllers for the one-dimensional wave equation (Q2446370)

Based on authors' abstract: The system described by the homogeneous one--dimensional wave equation defined on \((0, \pi)\) is considered. For every subset \(\omega \subset [0, \pi]\) of positive measure, \(T \geq 2\pi\), there exists a unique control of minimal norm in \(L^2(0,T; L^2(\omega))\) steering the system exactly to zero. In this paper two optimal design problems are investigated. The first problem is to determine the optimal shape and position of \(\omega\) in order to minimize the norm of the control for given initial data over all possible subsets \(\omega \subset [0, \pi]\) of Lebegue measure \(L\pi\), where \(L \in (0,1)\). The second problem is to minimize the norm of the control operator over all such subsets. For both problems different interesting phenomena have been found and their interpretation in terms of a classical optimal control problem for an infinite number of controlled ODEs have been provided. Several numerical experiments and simulations are given.